Jerome Won't Act On Missing Books In Traction Inquiry
District Attorney Jerome said no criminal proceedings would be started against Metropolitan Street Railway officers for destroying old books, citing the Statute of Limitations. He noted the books dated 1893 to 1902 were destroyed in 1904, and that no criminal intent had been proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome
TIMES
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Public Service Board
Moorhead
Commission
D. C. Moorhead
The
Metropolitan
New York City Railway Company
William M. Ivins
Ivins
Jerone
City Railway Company
Col. Amory
Auto to save sick boy drives to hospital
Clifton Conley a 10 year old from Atlantic City was transported by car to Cooper Hospital in Camden after railroad officials refused train passage due to typhoid fear. His father and employer arranged the auto ride, arriving about 8 p.m. with the boy described as serious but expected to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Camden
N. J
Clifton Conley
Atlantic City
Cooper Hospital
George Conley
J. F. Farr
Farr
Camden Institution
West Shore Limited Train to Buffalo
The West Shore Limited serves Buffalo and principal intermediate stations. Leaves Desbrosses at 8 05 A M via West Shore R R and West 42d St at 8 30 A M arrives Buffalo at 7 45 P M. New vestibuled equipment connects with Western rail and boat lines. Adv.
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Buffalo
West Shore Limited
Desbrosses &J
West Shore R. R
West 42d St
Western Rail
Hoke Smith Denies War Statement Over Georgia Rates
Governor Hoke Smith denies quoting him as saying he would ignore any federal injunction. He states he never made that remark and cites proceedings before Judge Shelby, noting rates set by the Georgia Railroad Commission after hearings. He praises cordial federal-state relations and condemns misquotation. Atlanta, September 8, 1907.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
NEW York Times
Railroad Commission of Georgia
Shelby
Federal Circuit
Georgia
Hoke Smith
Atlanta
Salvation Army Meeting Interrupted by Man With Revolver
Two hundred attendees at the Salvation Army barracks on Third Avenue ducked as a man with a loaded revolver disrupted the service. Captain Augusta Zern calmly approached, deactivated the threat, and escorted the intoxicated intruder to the doorway. Police later secured the weapon, which held blank cartridges.
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Salvation Army
Third Avenue
Augusta Zern
Capt. Zern
Collins
Zern
East 126Th Street
Plague Case Report and San Francisco Health Measures
San Francisco reports one new bubonic plague case with four suspected cases under observation. A temporary hospital camp will be erected at Ingleside to move 750 city and county hospital inmates and burn condemned hospital buildings. The report traces first May case at the U S Marine Hospital to August cases in North Beach, notes eighteen total cases with nine survivors, and explains flea transmission among rats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Board of Health
Ingleside
Ragensberger
State Board of Health
Col
Austin
Marine Hospital Service
Watkins
United States Marine Hospital
North Beach
Policeman Fights Burglar With Sword in Paterson
In Paterson New Jersey Colin Mc Lean a prominent local politician woke to a prowler and used a sword to attack the burglar who fled toward Clifton race track. The injured man named George Huerst was captured later at the hospital and remains under police guard.
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McLean
Clifton
George Huerst
Passaic
Riot in Vancouver Driven Chinese from Homes
Vancouver police failed to quell an anti oriental riot as 2 000 Chinese were driven from their homes and 5 000 dollars in property destroyed. Lieut Gov Dunsmuir was burned in effigy by about 10 000 laboring men after an anti Oriental parade.
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Vancouver
Gov. Dunsmuir
British Columbia
California
Bellingham
India
United States
Great Northern
Canadian
Vancouver Dispatch
Woman accuses 20 year old of assault and robbery
Mrs Florence Edwards of 646 Ninth Avenue says John Burns 20 dragged her into a hallway near 302 West Forty sixth Street choked gagged robbed her of a gold bracelet and six dollars. Burns arrested near the scene and charged with assault and robbery. Witness James Lynch 33 held as witness.
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Florence Edwards
Ninth Avenue
John Burns
West Forty-sixth Street
West Fortyseventh Street
James A. Lynch
Forty-sixth Street
Burns
Quilty
Lynch
Edwards
Steel Plant Runs Sunday Near Aliquippa
Acting on orders from Judge Holt and Beaver County DA McClure Albert Leitch with deputies went to the Jones & Laughlin Steel plant at Aliquippa to halt work on Sunday. The party was kept from entering the mills and the company vows to oppose the county action saying a steel mill cannot operate without Sunday labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Richard S. Holt
McClure
Beaver County
Albert Leitch
New Plaint
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Aliquippa
Leitch
Steel Company
Water shortage threat forces coal mines to shut down
Collieries in the lower anthracite districts face closure as water scarcity disrupts operations. Three-fourths of nearby mines may halt within days, with Reading Coal and Iron Company supplementing supplies by hauling water from Tumbling Run for both its mines and independents using tank cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville
Penn
Morgan's Wild Auto Dash Ends With Express Meet
J Pierpont Morgan chased an express train in a New York $15,000 car from Pittsfield Massachusetts to Lee and back, reaching sixty miles an hour on a curved route. He boarded the train as it pulled away, after prompting a brief hold at Lee. Morgan was visiting Charles Lander and left to return to New York for an engagement.
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New York Times
Pittsfield
Mass
J. Pierpont Morgan
Berkshires
Morgan
Charles Lander
New York
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Lander
E. J. Smith
Adriatic
Col
Oswald Latrobe
New York Express
Lee
Lander
Lenox
Pole trackworker dies saving passengers from train
Francesco Levita a Pole employed as a trackwalker for the Pennsylvania Railroad died at Irwin Hospital after saving passengers on the Chicago Limited Friday night. He found removed spikes and fishplates near Ardara in Westmoreland County and re secured them, but was struck by the engine as he finished. His actions alerted officials to renewed wrecking attempts along the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Francesco Levita
Pennsylvania Railroad
Irwin Hospital
Levita
Chicago Limited
Ardara
Westmoreland County
Train wreck on Alleghany Valley line injures engineer
An excursion train on the Alleghany Valley Railroad derailed at Charca Hill near Kittanning. The engine and six passenger cars toppled on both sides of a six foot embankment at about 40 miles per hour. Only engineer W. P. Shannon of Kittanning was seriously hurt, crushed beneath the engine. he may not survive. Passengers, including many women, suffered minor injuries but none others were hospitalized.
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New York Times
Kittanning
Penn
Alleghany Valley Railroad
Pennsylvania
Charca Hill
W. P. Shannon
Shannon
Infant Found Under Pew During Church Service
An infant about six hours old was found under a Baxter Street church pew during Evening Mass at the Church of the Most Precious Blood. Father Palombi baptized the child Mario Lincoln, and Lieut. Murray took custody for care at Bellevue Hospital. Parishioners reacted with excitement as two women expressed desire to adopt.
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Church of the Most Precious Blood
Baxter Street
S. Francesco Palombizio
Mario Lincoln
Ward
Elizabeth Street
Harry Murray
Wittington
le Bourbeau
Bellevue Hospital
British protests over ship protection in Antwerp strike
The British Consul General in Antwerp protests insufficient protection for British ships amid the strike movement. The situation remains calm as foreigners suspected of instigating disorder are being expelled from Belgium.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Lusitania and Lucania Near Atlantic Record Attempt
On the Lusitania from Queens town at 12 10 P M wireless report says fog delayed progress but by 6 P M fog lifted and speed held at 25 knots. Passengers stand on deck in evening dress hoping to glimpse the Lucania as marconi dispatches promise a serious effort to break the transatlantic record unless conditions worsen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Lusitania
Crookhaven
Daunt Rock
Lucania
Lusitania Reaches Queenstown Ahead of Sea Trial
On board the Lusitania at Queenstown the voyage underway after fog delay. The 3 000 passengers anticipate sea passage while Cunard Directors and naval experts monitor for a German record. 200 hopefuls at Queenstown miss out due to no room aboard.
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Lusitania
Queenstown
Lucania
Irish Sea
Cunard Company
Mersey
Cunard
Lusitania distance to Sandy Hook projected arrival
On board the Lusitania Marconigram from Crookhaven reports the liner is 180 miles from Queenstown. At 25 knots the 2784 mile voyage to Sandy Hook would take about 111⁄45 hours, with time adjustment placing arrival near 10 40 P M Thursday.
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Lucania
Marconigram
Crookhaven
Queenstown
Lusitania
Sandy Hook
Panic on Excursion Boat Island Queen Grounding
Eight hundred passengers aboard the Island Queen were panicked when the boat ran aground on Horse Tail Riffles in the Ohio River two miles below Davis Island Dam at 2 30 pm. The steamer Fairmont ferried off frightened passengers and brought them to Pittsburg while no serious injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Davis Island Dam
Fairmont
Coney Island
Decorra Schooner Drifts Ashore Total Loss in Nova Scotia
The old American schooner Decorra from Machias Maine drifted ashore on the Nova Scotia coast and is a total loss. No crew remains found on board, but it is believed the crew were rescued by another vessel and are en route to a different port. The Decorra had sailed the North Atlantic coastwise trade for over forty years, built at Machias in 1866 and registered 157 tons.
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Halifax
Decorra
Machias
Nova Scotia
North Atlantic
J. W. Berry
Scotch on a SP Bee famous Ady
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a notable Scotch on a SP Bee with a reference to Ady. Context unclear but highlights a celebrated product or event aboard a SP Bee and a person named Ady.
Harriman Declines Interview After Lantern Incident
Harriman helps two reporters on dark country roads near Arden after arriving at his home. He refuses to be interviewed at his residence, citing a policy against talking to reporters there, then demonstrates how to correctly fix a lantern to avoid blinding the horse.
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Harriman
Arden
Little Country
Mr. Harriman
Mrs Nutting Killed in Nova Scotia Driving Accident
In Bridgewater Nova Scotia last night a coach harness broke sending a carriage downhill. Mrs T Nutting 60 of New York was killed. five others injured including Mrs P A Moore and Rhetta Moore two year old, Annie Buker nurse, and the driver. Mrs Nutting wife of Col Nutting a retired U S Army officer.
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Halifax
N. S
Bridgewater
T. Nutting
New York
P. A. Moore
Rhetta Moore
Nutting
Col. Nutting
Soldiers Attack Jail in Junction City Standoff
Fifty soldiers from Fort Riley arrived in Junction City to free a comrade from the county jail. The Sheriff and city police opened fire from jail windows to disperse the assault. guards were posted afterward as authorities search for those responsible. No injuries reported.
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Junction City
Kan
Farriers School
Fort Riley
Hunter flees after shooting boy in Secaucus
Hudson and Union Counties New Jersey police search for a hunter who shot 16 year old Henry Knoll while mushrooming near his home. Knoll suffered severe hand wounds and a abdominal injury. he described the incident before losing consciousness. Authorities doubt locating the suspect soon.
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Hudson
Union Counties
New Jersey
Henry Knoll
Secaucus
N. J
Sisters Save 15000 in Wages From Taunton Mills
The will of Annie Snow, a Scotch mill worker, reveals that she and her sister Margaret saved $15,000 from forty five years of loom wages. Most funds go to Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston. Annie married a man named Devlin but stayed with her sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Taunton
Mass
Annie Snow
Fall River
Margaret
Perkins Institute For the Blind
Boston
Annie
Devlin
Roosevelt campaign money and Standard Oil inquiry
The article investigates Republican fund contributions during the 1904 race. It credits Cornelius Bliss with securing a $100,000 Standard Oil gift after a discreet meeting with Cortelyou and Roosevelt’s broader view on corporate support. It traces Harriman and Depew’s $260,000 total backing and raises questions about who knew and who was deceived.
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Ananias Club
George B. Cortelyou
Republican National Committee
B. B. Odell, Jr
Republican State Committee
Roosevelt
Higgins
Messrs. Harriman
Depew
Harriman
Cornelius N. Bliss
National Campaign Committee
Mr. Bliss
Mr. Cortelyou
Standard Oil Company
Timothy L. Woodruff
Broadway
National Committee
Bliss
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Ation
Washington
Pacific Coast
Ant Rob Woman
Jones & Laughlin
Morgan’s
Bellevue
Queens
Wireless Telegraph and Cable
Liverpool
Old Maine
Army
Bens
Boy
Hunter
Hudson River
Adv
Standard Oil
Paign
Wheeler
Edward H. Harriman
H. McK. Twombly
Vanderbilt
Chauncey M. Depew
James Hazen Hyde
Shesi
Equitable Life Assurance Society
J. Pierpont -Morgan
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
H. H. Rogers
John D. Archbold
William Rockefeller
PANY
James Speyer
Senator Depew
Nacre
Parker
Judge Parker
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